RTLMeter

RTLMeter is a collection of reference designs and tools for the evaluation of open source EDA tools, primarily Verilator.

The goal of RTLMeter is to collect accurate and reproducible performance metrics, which can be used to evaluate the performance of tools, and to evaluate the effect of changes, options or other relevant differences in the host environment.

License

In order to keep RTLMeter usage simple, the designs subdirectory contains code imported from open source repositories (with RTLMeter specific modifications). Copyright of these resides with their respective authors, and their licenses are available in their subdirectories, or their upstream repositories.

To see the source repositories and the licenses of imported designs, run:

./rtlmeter show --designs
./rtlmeter show --licenses

For RTLMeter itself, see LICENSE.

Dependencies

We try to keep external dependencies to a minimum. You will need the following available through your shell $PATH:

• Python 3.9 or newer as python3
• An installation of Verilator as verilator

All other dependencies are managed via a Python virtual environment, please see the Getting started guide.

Documentation

Please see the published User and Developer documentation.